Chennai, Aug 26: Maintaining its impressive performance, India advanced to the quarterfinals of the team event at the world junior squash championship at Cairo beating Canada 2-1 in their third and last round robin league match in pool 'C'. India topped their group and will play the US in the round of eight.
On Sunday, India had defeated Wales (3-0) and Germany (3-0).
Vaidehi Reddy, who has been performing consistently through out the tournament, came up with yet another superb display against Canada's top seeded player Miranda Raineri. Reddy won the tie 9-5 9-3 9-4, a press release from the Squash Rackets Federation of India said here today.
British Open champion Joshna Chinappa beat Jennifer Blumberg 9-2 9-2 9-6, while Supriya Baleskar went down fighting to Lauren Poolanich 9-7 5-9 4-9 10-8 8-10. Bureau Report